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altair4 wrote:Dolphin? Oh dear lord, KDE?

I have Win7 in this zoo so I will try to reproduce this problem but what version do you have. I have Win7 Pro's so if yours in Win7 Home I don't know how valid this will be.

It won't be today though since I should have shut down about 3 hours ago.

haha yeah KDE...i'm scared to try anything else before I learn at least one thing consistently! thank you for all your help altair, if you cant reproduce this its no big deal, i think i might just have to give up on this and just allow all guest user access for my shares

win7 ultimate

I can't reproduce this issue on any any of the Win7's I have here. There is one technique that was designed for something different that you can try:

Note: You're going to have to translate some of these into KDE, sorry.

[1] Create a file as root: [2] Add this content and save it: [3] Add a line to smb.conf - under the workgroup line would be good: [4] Then restart samba: When you access the share as landon from the Win7 machine:

** landon on Win7 will be converted to the landon Linux user on Mint.
** Samba will then search the smbpasswd database for landon and his associated samba password.
** If the samba password matches what the Win7 machine is sending then you're in.

This is usually used to convert a client user like "mary" to a server user named "bob" or to convert a Windows user with spaces in his name to a Linux user that has no spaces. Why it would be necessary for you in this case I can't figure out but it's the best I have at the moment.